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Queen Elizabeth sent first e-mail in 1976 Mon Apr 10, 6:50 AM ET Queen Elizabeth sent her first e-mail as long as 30 years ago, according to a list of 80 facts about the monarch released by Buckingham Palace to mark her 80th birthday on April 21. No details of the e-mail were included, except that it was sent from a British army base in 1976. The 40th monarch since William the Conqueror, she has undertaken over 256 official visits overseas during her 54-year reign and has received some bizarre gifts, the list revealed. They included jaguars and sloths from Brazil, two black beavers from Canada, a grove of maple trees and 7 kg of prawns. The queen traveled on the London underground for the first time in 1939 and attended her first FA football cup final in 1953, two experiences she never showed much appetite for repeating. But dogs and horses were a different matter: she has owned more than 30 corgis in her reign, starting with Susan who was an 18th birthday present in 1944. Her first pony, Peggy, was given to her by her grandfather King George V when she was four years old. The 80 facts are at http://www.royal.gov.uk Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html Other news headlines and stories are at: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/internet-news.html http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/nytimee.html

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